Soul Mate

                              

The State Governor must have been quite ready to give up his marriage and the integrity of his family when he announced to everyone that he had found his soul mate, (in another country).

The famous christian singer announced that she had left her husband, (and the integrity of her family), because she was now with her soul mate.

Is this something that we, in our pride, expect that we deserve? So, hopefully, whoever we are "stuck" with is our soul mate? If not, it's OK to leave if we find our true soul mate a little bit later? The two mentioned above must have thought that they were stuck with the wrong person for some period of time.

Drilling down to the bottom of the meaning of the term "soul mate" ends with this statement, "This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life."  The "soul mate" experience as it plays out in today's culture looks more like another chance to deify yourself.

It seems that we'd better wait patiently for our one and only true Soul Mate.  To those of us who believe in His saving grace, there is nothing more precious in life than our Lord Jesus Christ.

For those that marry, He will put us with someone who is His choice to serve His best interests, to be helpers of His glory, to help His saints and to help bring more sons to glory.  Maybe if we were with who we feel is our "soul mate", we would be absolutely useless to Him whom we are here to serve; because there would be someone more precious to us than Him.

"So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God)."
Colossians 3:5 Amp